Well, here we are in the woods.
It’s a Russian forest, dense, impassable, with windbreaks, glades, paths running in different directions. Look, you can see someone’s crown over on the glade. Who is that? That’s a little girl, Masha, sent by her mother to pick mushrooms and berries. Well, Masha collects the better berries right into her mouth, and the rest goes into the basket to make jam. And there’s a crackling noise nearby, not far away in a windbreak. Who is there? Mikhal Potapych the bear, the master of the forest, he, too, went to gather raspberries to make some sweet tea for himself. There he is - huge, fat, clumsy, with everything breaking under his weight. He walks around and does not notice anything. Masha walks through the glade, gathers berries, but does not hear the bear.
Masha picked berries, and then got a bit lost. There are many trails, and Masha doesn’t know which one leads home. That’s when Spirit of the forest sent her a bird guide - a nightingale. Masha followed him.
After a while they came to a clearing. And there was a hut at the clearing, well-cut, tightly sewn. Masha went inside the hut, and the inside looked just horrible! The floors are not swept, the dishes are not washed, cobwebs are hanging in the corners, cockroaches and flies everywhere - oh!
Well, Masha is good at homemaking, so she found a broom and started to clean up and sweep the hut. The nightingale helped her, and what a fuss they started! Masha got tired of all the household stuff, and she wanted to sleep. She went into the bedroom, climbed into bed, and fell asleep.
And then the bear Mikhal Potapych set off to go home. He was tired of gathering raspberries and roaming about swamps and the forest. All in all, he crushed more than he collected – he was too awkward. Annoyed and angry, too! His skin was stabbed with burr and nettles, mosquitoes, gadflies and bees kept biting him, oh, he was not a happy bear! He went through the forest, not noticing anything in front of himself. He tramples the shrubs and grass, frogs chomp under his feet. Everything is broken and crushed.
There was a pine tree with a woodpecker sitting on it, and Mikhal Potapych broke his pine. The woodpecker was gone in a flash, and his cap is red with fear now. The cuckoo was cuckooing in the birch forest, counting people's years. The bear broke her birch tree. Up to this day, the cuckoo is so afraid that she has been throwing her eggs into other birds’ nests. The owl, a night resident, just lay down to rest in his tree hollow, tired of his labors, and the bear broke his tree too. The owl was so frightened that his eyes are still round.
And Mikhal Potapych went on, out into the clearing. There in the glade, a tourist was sitting, a bearded man in a patched sweater, drying his socks at the fire, and they stink so badly that the mosquito's eyes are watering. The tourist is sitting on a log, his guitar is shrieking, and he is singing in a terrible voice.
The song made the bear angry, he broke the tourist's guitar, tore the strings, and smashed the bonfire. The tourist ran quickly into the forest, showing a clean pair of heels. Mikhal Potapych went on, and into his hut, yes, his dear hut was right there, but with the door ajar and strange traces leading to it. The bear went into the hut, but the hut was not the same.
The floors are swept, the dishes are washed, the tablecloths and curtains are ironed, no traces of spiders and cockroaches – what a nightmare! Bear went into his bedroom and there... You thought that’s where the fairy tale ends... but no!
That’s when Masha woke up, turned to other side - ah! The bear is there! Masha was frightened at first, and even screamed a little, then looked closely - the Bear was a teddy bear! Then Masha’s mother entered the room, "Why are you screaming, darling? Did you have a bad dream? Hug your teddy bear, and go back to sleep". Well, Masha fell asleep with the bear under her arm. And there’s a basket full of raspberries next to the crib, but no one knows who brought those raspberries.
"Lunar Cape" exports instrumental music to Earth, clear (as the moon dwellers thought) to a broad earthling audience. Music
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